The Covered Market is a Grade II listed building in the Preston local planning authority area, England. Market. 2 related planning applications.
The Covered Market
- WRENN ID
- fossil-doorway-solstice
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Preston
- Constituency
- Preston MP: Sir Mark Hendrick (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Market
- Address
- The Covered Market, Market Street, PR1 2PT
- OS grid reference
- SD 539 295
- Coordinates
- 53.76054, -2.69946
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Covered Market is a covered market built between 1870 and 1875, designed by Garlick, Park & Sykes. It was initially constructed by Joseph Clayton of Preston, followed by P.D. Bennett & Co of West Bromwich, and finally completed by William Allsup. The building features cast-iron columns and wrought-iron girders and principals with tension bars, topped with a hipped slate roof adorned with red ridge tiles. It has a rectangular plan oriented on an east-west axis and is a tall open-sided structure that follows a downward slope from east to west, consisting of 13 by 3 bays.
The columns are set on square pedestals with dog-toothed panels, with three marked "J.CLAYTON PRESTON" and 31 marked "W.ALLSUP." They have clustered shafts with foliated caps and large open-work brackets that support trellis girders with applied ornamentation. Prominent curved open-work brackets are attached at right angles to the girders, extending to the oversailing eaves. The roof is constructed with closely set principals and wrought-iron tension bars. The market experienced a collapse during construction in August 1870, and its completion was delayed due to disputes between the designer and contractors, as well as an appeal to Sir William Fairbairn. The Covered Market forms a group with the Fish Market and Amounderness House.
Local climate
The Covered Market sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,300 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 60% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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